The government confiscating all your cash in a time of financial turmoil however... that's pretty much guaranteed to happen.

If they had wanted to be truly innovative... the card would not be a Mastercard, but a Bitcoin hardware wallet, where the user would have to program it with their Public/Private key pair, and each citizen would be given at least three... one pair of e-cards primary/backup, and a paper document that could be used to prove ID in order to replace documents in case the other two were lost, so they could carry the first, lockup the second someplace safe, and put the third in a safety deposit vault.

Perhaps we should just pay a chinese hazardous waste disposal company to take it off our hands.

The tracks can be constructed to bring the shipping containers to port, in order to be loaded up onto the slow boat to China.

Also, most roads are out of WiFi connectivity anyway.

I think you're totally out of touch with what the technology is capable of. After you have logged the trip, you will be within WiFi range at your destination or at other points in time.

Also, it's up to the vehicle to distill that information, so they aren't necessarily uploading Gigabytes.

Even if they were, it's quite doable.

It's also quite possible analysis of the data may be distributed, and different vehicles could share that data with each other, and once many vehicles have the data, they would start seeding the same Torrent.

One word; bandwidth. Do you have any idea the amount of data there is in a road scan?

One word:WiFi, or Google WiFi and Background incremental data uploads and downloads with Automated analysis.

I'm going to map my drive to work, by driving it a few dozen times. Then the car can take over.

Why not provide a mechanism so that when you drive over the road, data is sent to Google. Once enough people have driven the road, the data gets shared with all the vehicles, so it's as if they all have the latest map of the road.

Also, there could be some mechanism designed for the DOTs, Police and construction workers, to "FLAG" a position and broadcast based on GPS coordinates as "X event now", OR "X event next Friday from 12pm to 4pm", "Emergency", "Danger STOP/SLOW", "Lane Closure", "Lane Detour", "Flagman", or "Change Made", "Signal Removed", "New Signal Added", "Stop Added", "Intersection Added", and specify a number miles radius, so the first approaching vehicles to encounter will automatically approach with extra caution, until they have collected sufficient new data

can deliver a single web page to a single client at once, and requires editing of configuration files to deliver another page.

Kind of like the early Gopher servers?

Smallpox is not "easily created".

Maybe not 'easily', but it can be created. The entire genetic sequence of Variola Major is known and has been published, so the virus could be synthesized artificially by reproducing the sequence.

What happens if you try shouting "xyzzy" ?

A hollow voice says "PLUGH".

You can have for this much but you have no control over anything that happens to the browser.

Before or after you accidentally click the tile?

I'm sure the advertisers will insist that their bit of javascript runs, as well; the tile's content will probably be a script src= tag pointing to the advertiser's webserver.

Seems to me that the evangelism and product referrals come from a tiny, but vocal minority.

There, fixed that for you. Never forget, that the same "minority" that take issue with changes to the product, also tend to be the same minority that espouse your product from the mountain tops and get people actually using your product. This small group also often includes consultants, IT admins, and other influencers, who if sufficiently dissatisfied have a great deal of power to persuade current users to switch to another product.

Yeah, because every change breaks someone's workflow.

What exactly is Mozilla doing that is pissing away so much money?

Salaries. And remember, Firefox is a for-profit company now with shareholders.

They might not be a megacorp like Google, but they're still a pretty big company with over 500 employees.

If something sounds too crazy to be true without substantial evidence to back it up

If something sounds crazy, on the internet, especially Facebook,etc; It's probably click-bait. They just want your clicks to earn ad revenue.

They will earn money, even if it's false or bogus. Also, there are unlikely to be any negative ramifications at all.

"Sorry, our bad"

And everyone will forget.

Sort of.... i'm sure there will be many repeats, and we'll just never get it.

Why are you so afraid to call a spade a spade?

Because they believe they're free.

I want to emphasize the fact that there some countries that truly are, and others that are deceiving their people.

But there's only a 25% chance of that.

And that's just the average probability, with the actual probability for a given sample in terms of percentage points having a standard deviation of + / - 25 percentage points.

Under the definition you suggest, any WTO member recognizing the legal theory of aiding and abetting infringement

If by that you mean posting just a link to someone else's content might be illegal if the material at your link contains something infringing in the content, then you bet that's "partly free" and non-free in a particularly troublesome way.